Those costs would be factored into any negotiations on an independence settlement.
Yet such a move would make it harder to negotiate a good independence settlement with the rest of Britain, wreck Scotland's credibility in capital markets and send its borrowing costs skyward.
These would probably be broken up as part of an independence settlement, not least because many of their assets are English.But Edinburgh's fortunes as a banking centre would be hard to revive.
But elsewhere, Mrs. Thatcher was less belligerently defiant and more pragmatically accommodating: not only in the case of Hong Kong, where she initiated negotiations with China that would culminate in the 1997 transfer, but also in Rhodesia, where she was determined to face down the Tory right, and bring about an independence settlement.
It also needs this mandate to negotiate an independence settlement with the UK government.
For Israel, territory, with its ramifications for Palestinian independence and settlements, is a vital negotiating card.
He seems sincerely to believe that Malaysia's political settlement after independence in 1957 is anachronistic, because it uses wide-ranging affirmative actions to privilege the rights of the majority ethnic Malays over those of ethnic Chinese and Indians.
The goal of the trip, led by Elder Tinsdale, is to tour the Middle Western holy sites, from Nauvoo, Illinois, an early settlement, to Independence, Missouri, where Joseph Smith prophesied that Jesus would summon all Mormons to build a glorious temple.
Kosovo did eventually gain independence, based on the settlement proposed by UN mediator Martti Ahtisaari.
The Z-4 Plan was a proposed basis for negotiations to end the Croatian War of Independence with a political settlement.
